Evaluation of Data Dissemination Schemes in Electromagnetic Nanosensor Networks

Revolutionary advancement in realizing nanosensors promises unprecedented enhancement of applications in several fields such as health, industry, agriculture, environment, sport, etc. The small size of nano-sensors and their THz band leads to significant constraints in energy, memory, processing, and transmission range. To combat these constraints, recent progress and active research in nano-sensing technology have led to increasing interest in connecting these nano-sensors in a new network technology, the nano-network. Communication in nano-networks still poses a non-trivial challenge owing to the constraint of processing, storage, energy, and communication range capabilities of nano-nodes. Short communication range in the THz band renders direct communication in nano-networks infeasible most of the time. Hence, multihop communication among nano-nodes is currently regarded as the viable solution for nano-network realization. In this paper, we investigate three routing protocols; controlled flooding, CORONA, and Hierarchical AODV. We evaluate the performance of the three protocols with different transmission ranges and network densities.